Example sentences of "for a kind [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation .
2 Instead she called for a kind of fiction that would record the atoms of experience ‘ as they fall upon the mind , in the order in which they fall ’ , that would ‘ trace the pattern , however disconnected and incoherent in appearance , which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness ’ .
3 Some regard must be taken of the need for a kind of clarity and boldness , a clear differentiation between an object and its background , for example , which need not concern the artist working for adult readers .
4 For instance , IVF embryos can be used for a kind of surrogacy where a woman bears a child for a couple with the embryo created from their egg and sperm .
5 This made for a kind of harmony and a kind of confidence .
6 At first glance it could be mistaken for an ornately carved stool , its black and white surfaces for a kind of sculpture .
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